I just received an email from Allie Wall at Georgia Watch that I’m sure many of you also received, which I’ll report here for those who didn’t.
All fans of “Peachtree Screed†Monroe:
Please reserve this Saturday evening for an impromptu get together for Doug at the Red Light Café in Midtown. We will be celebrating Doug’s new position as New York City Teaching Fellow, where he will be working towards a Masters, teaching special education students in Brooklyn, and, hopefully, blogging.
He leaves for NYC on Monday, so this is your only and last chance to send him off. As an added bonus, his daughter Caroline performs at Red Light at 7:00 p.m. Please arrive early and stay late…
Red Light Café: http://www.redlightcafe.com/map.html
Caroline Monroe: http://www.carolinemonroe.com/
[Info about Caroline's performance]
Hope to see y’all there,
Allie
Congratulations to Doug. Since starting his blog for Atlanta Magazine, he has quickly become one of the most prolific and informative bloggers around. There’s going to be quite a vacuum when he leaves, as I can’t think of anybody who has been as on top of transit issues as he has.
UPDATE: I haven’t asked him about it yet, but I suspect Doug’s departure must be sudden considering his friend Andisheh lists him as one of the bright lights in the local blogosphere in this week’s Creative Loafing. Oops.
Andisheh’s opening write-up sounds to me like Ken Edelstein told him to write something to “piss off the kids and get them reading this goddamn thing.” I’d be desperate for attention too if I were a MSM organization with (supposedly) 125,000+ circulation and only 21 Feedburner subscribers on my blog.
But I do appreciate him pointing me to I Saw It On Ponce, which I wasn’t aware of and looks interesting.
UPDATE 2: Yes, it was sudden, says the man himself.
Hwhaht?? Doug, don’t go…!!!
Ahem. Actually:
Doug, though I will miss you, I wish you the best of luck. This sounds like an amazing opportunity and I know you’ll have a wonderful experience. Plus, now there will be more than one place for me to crash when I visit New York City!
[...] Doug Monroe, lately of Peachtree Screed fame, is leaving the ATL for NYC (from Rusty’s blog): All fans of “Peachtree Screed†Monroe: [...]
[...] Via the GDBF, I found out that Doug Monroe - the “haggard old man himself” - is moving to New York City! [...]
Congrats to Doug. Sounds like a good gig. We’ll miss him around town - hopefully he’ll still be blogging.
But….but….but…..what will happen to the Screed?
I’m sad too Sellout!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO……..
But still, it sounds totally fab.
Hey. This is a nice comment set-up.
I Saw It On Ponce is awesome.
As far as the other thing, I’m going to wait and let the old dude provide the details.
Haggard! You got that right!
Grift,
I didn’t want to engage in speculation of any kind either, but I couldn’t resist taking a poke at Andisheh and needed a device.
Well he’s let the cat out of the bag now.
He dun gone yankee on us.
Don’t say the word yankee! If he becomes a NY Yankees fan I will kill him myself.
I’m not sure I understand the format of FreshLoaf. Is it just going to be a lot of snippets of the print edition? Hrmm.
Hello, I’m the Online/MIS Director for Creative Loafing. I’m replying to the comment in the post about us having only 21 feedburner subscribers. I think blogging communities have a tendency to be a little insular in thinking sometimes. I encourage my gals and guys to always think like an average user. I describe an average user as someone like my wife who works in project management She doesn’t subscribe to RSS and wouldn’t know what RSS was if you told her. Her circle of friends have similar profiles. She knows how to bookmark pages and that is what she uses along with Google. As of about 30 minutes ago we have had 15,000 unique visitors to our blog this month. We use Omniture to track and we filter out traffic from our own facilities. 15,000 isn’t great but it’s a lot better than 21. I’m not trying to pick a fight, but I just want to highlight something that I think is important.
While some of our staff has been blogging for years, as a company we are new to it and recognize that we have a lot to learn and appreciate any feedback we get.
Hi Murray,
Good to hear from you again. Thanks for commenting.
I was just playing a little tit-for-tat snark with Andisheh. I know 21 subscribers is an incomplete picture of traffic.
Hi Murray.
I’m sorry, You are completely wrong about almost everything,
Still, it’s nice that some are trying to address this phenom.
Murray again. Wanted to clarify something. The writers for the blogs don’t report to me, but the on-line editors and Webmasters do.
Ok. I know it’s old hat. But what is RSS? And why should I care.